EVE General Discussion

Should that actually be the case and I am not say it is

The easy fix is just to increase the distance between regions so that jump travel is easy within a region but is limited to for example a fully trained jump pilot to go from the last system to the closest system in the next region.

So keeping local jumping easy and making regional jumping more dangerous in that you have to have a beach head in a specific system.

But personally I dont think that would help small alliances, while I do think a usage based Sov system and industry improvements would.

A smart alliance could get past that

But as I said a usage based Sov is a lot better than any jump nerfs.

Lol by what means? Renting? Growing to 1000 members in npc null?

Please read:
http://themittani.com/features/sov-problems-little-guys-or-new-blood

Been there done that

and I do not do the sheep, I prefer to think for my self.

I am sorry I missed all of the facts in that article.

But once again I see how the idea of Goonswarm was formed.

the FiS mechanics have nothing to do with improving the SOV mechanics

One of the reasons and probably the main reason why 0.0 seem so closed off for outsiders is the paranoia and alliances need for security
After living in 0.0 sec for a while i see why and admit i might been a bit harsh in the past against nullsec alliances

You need to keep fighting constantly and be paranoid about security to keep your own little space safe
if they do not they loose sooner than you can say superfcalifragi ..... never mind

Hell and here was me thinking someone can't read.

Well instead of going nuts with the current regions and supercapital blobs controlling it I have a simple solution for that "problem".

Throw in couple of new regions but make it exceptionally hard, if possible at all, to travel these regions with capital ships and large forces. For example, you can place these regions as such a distance from the empire and current null sec regions that jump drives cant reach it and then put the systems so far apart in there that you have only very few systems in reach of each particular starsystem.

It would be all nice and fair until some bears dig themselves in somewhere in there and construct a pile of supercapitals in the starsystem and - if these can reach adjacent systems in that region - dominate the new regions.

Another issue for a small alliance is facing the "blob" of multiple 250 man fleets fieldid by major powers. For that I would make it so that the stargates in these new regions would be partially damaged - allowing a finite number of jumps per minute, either modified or not modified by mass of the ships jumping.

Overall we already have wormholes for these people who desire sov warfare free existence. Alhough the warfare can and do get even more brutal in higher end holes than it does in sov warfare. What these "limited" regions might offer is a access to a sov holding gameplay for smaller well organized entities. It's just that we already have enough regular null sec space, so these should be something unique.

Say one such region for each major pirate faction giving nice geographical coverage, perhaps one also for rogue drones, now that they are a faction of their own. So, alltogehter 5 regions, say approx 50 systems each so about 250 new starsystems and if its designed in a way to make it hard to control multiple starsystems with power projection in these regions it should serve as a nice startup location for the smaller alliances where they can grow sheltered from the supercap blob until they feel they are ready to go play with the big boys and their big boy toys in the form of supercap blob.

They should remove the ability of coming out of warp and jumping straight through the gate, perhaps if ships came out of warp a short distance away from the gate and then had to slow boat the rest of the way this would add the necessary delay to travel that you are trying to achieve.

With a distance of, say, 15km to travel, this would also provide more opportunities for combat to occur around gates.

Hmm, hang on, this sounds familiar...

"Impossible". Always throwing around absolutes to have their own pet peeves get looked at first.....

Sov is impossible to fix because there isn't enough substance to it that can be balanced. It's like bricks in the the sandbox. You can't make them more malleable without smashing them to bits with a hammer. I say, throw those bricks out and bring in a bucket, water and sand moulds, so people can build their sand castles for others to gawk at or tear down.

Sov needs to be made up of smaller bits that can be either slowly eroded or violently smashed down, depending on tastes and abilities. And if there are options for subterfuge and conquest, even better.